Re: WSJ.com - Stop the Music!

["Bruhn, Mark S." <mbruhn () INDIANA EDU>]

"Last Oct. 1, the first day the university turned on Icarus, it caught
1,500 violators. In the months since then, it tracked down an additional
2,500 first-time violators, 400 second-time violators, and seven
third-time violators, who were cut off from the university's Internet
connection for 30 days and sent to the student judiciary, with a notice
placed in their permanent academic records."   Violators?   What they
discovered was 1500 p2p application users, right?  While I'm  not naive
enough to think that the vast majority of those weren't sharing
copyrighted materials without permission, can they all be called
"violators" like that, as a result of an automated process?  Were each
of these students contacted and given an opportunity to explain what
they were actually doing?  Seems like after that conversation would be
the point at which they might be labeled "violators."  
 
Like all of us, students need to be responsible and held accountable for
their own behavior, and once illegal behavior facilitated by a campus
network is reported, that situation needs to be dealt with.  But, we
should still respect due process, and stay consistent in our approach to
student behaviors and subsequent judical processes.
 
(Is it really true that George Washington University and the University
of Southern California were both named, as institutions, in law suits
filed by the RIAA?  Or (more likely) were students at those universities
individually targeted?)
 
M.
 

-- 
Mark S. Bruhn, CISSP, CISM 

Chief IT Security and Policy Officer 
Associate Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
(http://cacr.iu.edu <http://cacr.iu.edu/> ) 

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO 
Indiana University 
812-855-0326 

Incidents involving IU IT resources: it-incident () iu edu 
Complaints/kudos about OVPIT/UITS services: itombuds () iu edu 


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